The Walton Ricketson portraiture bust of Henry David Thoreau is quite possibly the best sculpture ever produced of Concord’s favorite son and author of Walden. It represents a young, idealized Henry Thoreau

In a room packed with educators attending the 2016 Massachusetts Environmental Education Society annual conference in early March, Walden Woods Project staff offered the first public introduction to Henry’s Hat,

From July 3‐7, 2016, Jeffrey Cramer, the WWP’s Curator of Collections, and Whitney Retallic, Director of Education, were doing something they often do—talking with students about Thoreau. But these particular

Upcoming Events

Nature, a walking play, is coming back to Concord! After receiving rave reviews when here in 2017 for Thoreau's bicentennial, TigerLion Arts, in partnership with the Trustees, will bring their show back to The Old Manse! Nature is the mythic telling of Emerson and Thoreau’s mutual love affair with the... Read more

Nature, a walking play, is coming back to Concord! After receiving rave reviews when here in 2017 for Thoreau's bicentennial, TigerLion Arts, in partnership with the Trustees, will bring their show back to The Old Manse! Nature is the mythic telling of Emerson and Thoreau’s mutual love affair with the... Read more